All 4 Uses of
convention
in
Main Street
- Every year Kennicott had talked of attending the American Medical Association convention, "and then afterwards we could do the East up brown.†
Chpt 24
- Toward the end of July he proposed, "Say, the Beavers are holding a convention in Joralemon, street fair and everything.†
Chpt 24 *
- Beavers, human Beavers, were everywhere: thirty-second degree Beavers in gray sack suits and decent derbies, more flippant Beavers in crash summer coats and straw hats, rustic Beavers in shirt sleeves and frayed suspenders; but whatever his caste-symbols, every Beaver was distinguished by an enormous shrimp-colored ribbon lettered in silver, "Sir Knight and Brother, U. F. O. B., Annual State Convention."†
Chpt 24
- Think how much better you can criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.†
Chpt 31 *
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting